Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:17:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Leif Neland <leifn@image.dk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X, xinit, startx Message-ID: <19980414101727.B14520@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <c62_9804132016@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>; from Leif Neland on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 09:27:35AM %2B0100 References: <199804130237.VAA25969@dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com> <c62_9804132016@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
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On Mon, 13 April 1998 at 9:27:35 +0100, Leif Neland wrote: > At 13 Apr 98 04:36:56 "Kevin Liquori" wrote regarding X, xinit, startx > > "L> What is the difference between the commands 'X', 'xinit' and > "L> 'startx'? I get some strange results: > "L> X - my system begins to load X windows and hangs on the gray > "L> screen before any actual windows appear. > > You can't really say it hangs. X creates the graphical environment, and is > ready to make/accept windows on it, when something asks it to. > > "L> xinit - opens one borderless windows that appears to function > "L> fine > > xinit does this. > > "L> startx - this is what I was looking for and just found it > "L> tonight thanks to a post on this list. > > startx does the above and also starts a window manager to put borders and more > around windows, and gives you the possibility to launch more windows on the > X-screen. In fact, startx is a shell script which just sets some environment variables and runs xinit. xinit starts the applications specified in your .xinitrc, which is also a shell script. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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